Category: Conference

Time: 22nd March 2017 Location: Aston Webb C Block G30  The Emerging Technologies Competition (eTech) is organised by the IT Innovation Centre (ITIC) in IT Services and builds on the success of the Student Mobile App Competition that we ran for the previous 5 years. In the demos and awards ceremony, finalists will present and demo … Continue reading “Demo and Award Ceremony – eTech Competition 2016-2017 Final”

The Award and Demo Ceremony for the Student Mobile App Competition was successfully carried on 18th March 2016. Our finalists have inspired us with their app designs and prototypes.Career Networks provided a great support on the day and interviewed our finalists for their SMAC experiences. External sponsors from IBM, Deutsche Bank and Whitbread came as judges … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2015-2016 Winners Announced”

Time: 18th March 2016, 9:00am – 5:00pm Location: Aston Webb C Block G30 (Careers Network Seminar Room) In the demos and awards ceremony, finalists will present and demo their apps and designs to a panel of experts from industry and academics and to a wider audience.This year, we have engaged a new industrial sponsor, Whitbread (who run Costa, … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2015-2016 Final-Demo and Award Ceremony”

A half-day event organised by the IT Innovation Centre as part of wider consultation for the University of Birmingham Collaborative Teaching Lab project on 5th March 2015. Its aim was to bring together academics and technology developers to discuss the requirements for the teaching labs of the future. The event focused around two sessions: one driven by … Continue reading “Teaching Labs of the Future Mini Conference”

On December 4th 2014, IT Innovation Centre and Ideas Lab hosted  the second Mobile Apps in Research Summit in  the University. This year’s Summit included some discussion-based workshop sessions, by popular demand, as well as presentations, panels and networking. Welcome Introduction to the Purpose and desired outcomes of the day – Professor John Heath (Pro-Vice Chancellor, … Continue reading “The Mobile Apps in Research Summit 2014”

The Mobile Apps in Research Summit (MARS Summit) held on 4th Dec 2013 in University of Birmingham was the first event to bring together academics, developers and funding bodies in the UK to explore the potential for mobile devices in gathering research data and for delivering the results of data as tools for professionals and as public … Continue reading “The Mobile Apps in Research Summit 2013”